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June 12, 2014
Jess Walter
The Real Reason There Were No American Players on the 'Most Compelling Players' List
June 12, 2014
Alex Massie
Why You Should Hate Team USA
Or maybe just American soccer fans
June 12, 2014
Alice Robb
Watching Your World Cup Team Triples Your Chance of Having a Heart Attack
June 12, 2014
Ilan Stavans
Why Has Literature Ignored Soccer?
June 12, 2014
Simon Critchley
Why There Is No Such Thing as a Bad World Cup
A philosopher's theory of soccer fandom
June 11, 2014
Daniel Alarcón
Colombia Forecast: A Day of World Cup Unity, Followed By an 'Apocalyptic' Election
Bracing for a roller-coaster weekend in Bogotá
June 11, 2014
Rabih Alameddine
Please Help Me Find a World Cup Team to Hate
Now accepting nominations for a side that deserves my scorn
June 11, 2014
Tim Fernholz
Not One Compelling American on the 'Most Compelling Players' List?
U.S. players deserve a lot more credit
June 11, 2014
Jess Walter
Why Cameroon Will Beat Mexico on Friday
The Lions' secret advantage: the spirit of the oldest player to ever score in a World Cup
June 11, 2014
Fernando Rodriguez-Vila
All You Tiki-Taka Haters Are Just Jealous
Like it or not, possession still wins matches
June 11, 2014
Leon Krauze
The Pleasures of Rooting Against Brazil
No team has ever acted so entitled to World Cup glory.
June 10, 2014
Howard Wolfson
How I Got My Soccer-Hating Son to Watch the World Cup
A sticky solution.
June 10, 2014
Miles Kohrman
The Smart Fan's 2014 World Cup Social Media Guide
All the feeds you need to be following, right now
June 10, 2014
Franklin Foer
Welcome to Goal Posts III
June 10, 2014
Luke Dempsey
21 Things That Must Happen During This World Cup
June 10, 2014
Joseph O'Neill, David Winner, Aleksandar Hemon, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Alex Bellos, Jess Walter, Rabih Alameddine, Tom Rachman, Laurent Dubois, Geoff Dyer, Supriya Nair
Eleven Writers and Intellectuals on the World Cup's Most Compelling Characters
June 10, 2014
Franklin Foer
Slavery, Sex and the Roots of Brazil's Transcendent Style of Soccer
Reflecting on my alternate life as a Futebol fanatic
June 9, 2014
Shaj Mathew
The World Cup Is About to Begin, and FIFA's Reputation Has Never Been Worse
June 6, 2014
Shaj Mathew
Do U.S. Soccer Fans Steal Europe's Customs? Damn Right We Do!
A British writer calls American soccer fans “derivative, excessive and utterly ridiculous.” Those same adjectives apply to his essay.
May 27, 2014
Geoff Dyer
The Tragedy of the 2014 World Cup: Gareth Bale Won't Be Playing

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